A11 crash in West Suffolk on 27 May 2001 at 08:15 involving a Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle
A Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle crashed on the A11 in West Suffolk at 08:15 on Sunday 27 May 2001. The 52-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 May 2001
- Sunday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha FZS 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.30924, longitude 0.48743, in the IP28 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Iceni, West Suffolk, IP28 8XA area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Forest Heath district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200137B010966
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 11
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 1998.
Slight
Bus crash on the A11 in West Suffolk, 30 July 1998
14 m awayRef 199837B003840
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A11 in West Suffolk, 1 December 2018
20 m awayRef 2018370352952
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A11 in West Suffolk, 15 July 2021
20 m awayRef 2021371075404
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in West Suffolk, 6 November 2018
20 m awayRef 2018370346933
Serious
Mercedes crash on the B1085 in West Suffolk, 26 July 2019
22 m awayRef 2019370862285
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the A11 in West Suffolk, 29 June 2009
22 m awayRef 200937B042646
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha FZS 600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha FZS 600)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 200137B010966 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 2001.